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[cranky108]

Bad drivers seem to make a bigger impact here. But squirrels are up there on the list. We also see several spring flash overs, and pole fires from Mag-Cloride and coal dust.

 

[electricpete]

Some unknown fraction of the kamikazee squirrel statistics must be chalked up to the category of "throwdown squirrel". (dead squirrel carried around in back of the truck to be taken out when needed to explain the occasional unexplainable outage).

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(2B)+(2B)' ?

 

[tlrols]

Marmots seem to be a favorite where I work. They somehow get up on transformers or regulators and then try a experiment in conducting that usually ends badly for them. Raptors do their part as well. I remember a rattlesnake or two that got cooked a time or two. Throw in some high winds, ice, lightning and mother nature makes life interesting.

I think the Aurora "vulnerability" has pretty much been thrown under the bus (where it belongs) by the industry (i.e. people with real knowledge so to speak).

The policy types continue to babble on about it, but the truth is that you simply can not bring down the power system from Starbucks...this of course is counter to what the "Prophets (i.e. Profits) of Doom" would like you to believe...

 

[cranky108]

No, No, No, we do not have a problem with Raptors.

Besides how lazy of a terrest are you if you never leave Starbucks?

I believe there is a group of people in Washington who want to make utilities look bad, and give them a good reason to take them over. The problem is they just don't know enough about how utilities work to find things that will stick.

So they are left with giving the public the illusion that the evel utilities need to be taken over by the goverment.

 

[tlrols]

Lol...my bad. Raptors NEVER cook themselves...